Sleeping on a kang has an advantage over sleeping on a bed, it is silent and does not creak.

As for those who say that they will overwhelm the kang, they are bragging.

Yang Shubao got up early in the morning to wash, Zheng Qihong was preparing breakfast, and when he saw him, he asked, "When will you and Nicole get married?"

These words were like someone splashing a bucket of water on a cold day, and Lao Yang shuddered violently: "Mom, what did you hear last night?"

Zheng Qihong looked at him suspiciously and said, "What did you hear?"

Yang Shubao touched his nose and said, "Then you ask us when we will get married?"

"You both live together, why don't you get married soon?" Zheng Qihong said angrily.

Yang Shubao said: "No, don't talk nonsense, spread rumors, we don't live together." ”

"Nicole didn't come out last night when she sent you back, and you haven't lived together yet, so she slept on the floor?" Zheng Qihong smiled disdainfully.

She teased Yang Shubao again: "Okay, my mother knows that you are thin-skinned, but there is nothing to be embarrassed about when a man is married and a woman is married, there is nothing to be embarrassed about, get married, your mother has not experienced it, I don't know how many times." ”

"I don't know how many times I've experienced it?" Lao Yang was stunned, "Do you still have this story?"

"Roll the calf, it's not big or small," Zheng Qihong scolded with a smile, "I have a fart story, your brother Daguang got married, my colleague got married, and the people in the village got married, of course I experienced a lot." ”

Speaking of this, she sighed a little: "But my son has never experienced marriage, alas, in a blink of an eye, you have changed from a little doll the size of a pig baby to a big boy." ”

This matter really has to be talked about, Yang Zhengnian only got up when he had breakfast, he was a little embarrassed, and after sitting down, he muttered: "I was in a bad state yesterday." ”

Zheng Qihong scolded: "Who are you pretending to be a calf with here? It's not in a good state, Grandpa Nicole has overturned your grandfather, and the three generations of your old Yang family have let people overturn one by one." ”

Yang Shubao translated, and the old chivalrous man smiled, quite proud.

Nicole rolled her eyes, you're still proud, you turned someone's grandson over, and someone's grandson turned your granddaughter over.

The old men in the Northeast have a good face, Yang Zhengnian said in a deep voice: "Don't be afraid, Xiaobao, your father and I will find this field back sooner or later." ”

Yang Shubao said with a smile: "Don't look for it, drink less, this time people are not here to drink, but to talk about engagement." ”

Yang Zhengnian was overjoyed: "Ah? Nicole's family is here to propose?"

Zheng Qihong sighed and said: "I'm a cultural person, how can I marry such a thing as you? Can you speak? Do you want your son to be a son-in-law? It's our family!"

Yang Zhengnian said to her seriously: "Nicole's family doesn't want a bride price, and when her son gets married, she will go to live on someone's land, what do you say this is not a door-to-door son-in-law?"

Zheng Qihong was stunned.

Yang Shubao said: "Don't want a bride price is people's culture, I went to South Africa to develop that is the trend of the times, the cause is important, this is not to be a son-in-law." ”

Yang Zhengnian waved his hand and said: "Okay, we all know this, you don't need to say it, be a translator, you ask my uncle, did they say that they were engaged?"

There is a tradition in South Africa that the man's family gives the woman's family ten cows.

He said, "There are dozens of cows in my reserve, and I'll drive them all over to you." ”

Nicole was deflated: "What are you giving us cows for? ”

Other than that, it's easy to say, and nothing else.

Zheng Qihong was greatly moved when she heard that Nicole had no needs at home.

She has seen some teachers in the school want to buy a house and a car before getting married, borrow money and quarrel with all kinds of money, and now people don't want to give her a beautiful and temperamental daughter-in-law, this is simply a sister Lin falling from the sky.

So she went into the house and turned the bottom of the box out, and then took out a handkerchief stacked together and a brocade box.

When she arrived at the dinner table, she opened the handkerchief layer by layer, and inside was a green jade bracelet.

Zheng Qihong said solemnly: "This is given to me by Grandma Xiaobao, it is the heirloom of our old Yang family, you see that I don't have any good things, so I will give this to Nicole." ”

Yang Shubao was stunned: "This is like acting on TV, Mom, we still have this baby?"

Yang Zhengnian wanted to speak and stopped, and his face was loveless.

Zheng Qihong gave him a look: "Don't talk nonsense." ”

Yang Shubao asked, "What do you two mean?"

Zheng Qihong opened the brocade box again, and inside was a set of gold jewelry, including bracelets, earrings, and necklaces, all of which were pure gold, and the yellow ones were very beautiful.

The bracelet is a hollow gold style, with two phoenixes tail to tail and mouth kissing, which is called Phoenix Yu Fei.

The earrings are two birds, a phoenix and a luanbird, they are very delicately structured, and there is a gentle bell in a flash, which is also said, called Luan Feng and Ming.

In the middle of the necklace is a beautiful little pendant, and a deer drags a small cart.

"I know this," Yang Shubao said with a smile, "It's called jingle bells, Santa Claus gives gifts!"

"I'll give you a head," Zheng Qihong glared at him, "This is a deer cart, from "Hou Han Shu Bao Xuan's Wife's Biography", the wife is a royal dress, wearing a short cloth dress, and Xuangong is returning to the hometown with the deer cart. ”

Yang Zhengnian said to Yang Shubao with disdain: "Our husband and wife are so educated, why did they give birth to such a thing as you?"

Uncle Yang didn't hear it, and he told Nicole the meaning of the three pieces of jewelry.

Nicole first learned Chinese because of Yang Shubao, but as she learned about Chinese culture, she began to feel the charm of history and time, and now she is really interested in related cultures.

Knowing that the three pieces of jewelry were inherited from the ancient marriage culture, Nicole couldn't put them down and thanked them again and again.

Zheng Qihong was also happy when she saw that she liked it, and she said with relief: "Since I knew that you had a partner, my mother prepared these three things, all of which were designed by my mother and the teacher in the office, and I found the best old craftsman in our county to smash them out, which is not a big road." ”

Yang Shubao hugged her and smiled: "Mom, thank you." ”

"Say thank you, remember to come back to see your mother often in the future, this is the biggest thanks. Zheng Qihong said.

Yang Shubao said: "Don't worry, Nicole and I don't plan to immigrate to South Africa, we still have to come back in the end." ”

Nicole wanted to put it on, but Yang Zhengnian stopped her and said: "Our old Yang family is not a big family, but it is also a family with a head and a face, and the child's engagement is not a trivial matter, and it must be treated ceremoniously." ”

"Is this so powerful, do you want to set up a few tables at the entrance of the village?" Yang Shubao asked in a daze.

Yang Zhengnian said: "You have to put it, what, you tell Nicole, let's have an engagement banquet tonight, tomorrow night, and call your grandfather, aunt, second uncle, third aunt, and fourth aunt." Alas, it's a pity that your uncle and uncle left early, and your uncle is old and rare for you. ”

Yang Shubao's grandfather had three sons, the eldest and the third died young, the eldest of which sacrificed his life for the country at the border, and the third died as a firefighter to save people in a famous fire in Jixiang County.

Now there is still a plaque hanging on the door of his grandfather's house, which was personally delivered by the city leaders: the home of heroes.

Zheng Qihong has the straightforwardness and urgency of a Northeast woman, she said: "What are you waiting for tomorrow night, it's done tonight." ”

Yang Zhengnian said: "Not tonight, you let me slow down, I have to find a place tomorrow night." ”